Côte d’Ivoire has validated its report on the State of the Marine Environment
The report was validated during a two-day workshop in Grand-Bassam.
Ecosystem-based approach to Integrated Marine and Coastal Environment Management (EIMCEM)
Project description
The pilot project in Ghana involves analyzing and allocating space for economic activities, ecosystem services and conservation values in Ghana’s maritime area, to achieve the economic objectives set by the Republic of Ghana’s medium term economic policy.
The project’s overall goal is to contribute to sustainable economic growth by ensuring an integrated management of Ghana’s coastal and marine environment. This is being done by strengthening national capacity for ecosystem-based management of the marine and coastal environment by preparing a state of the marine environment report, as well as by developing a marine spatial plan for the country’s territory waters. In addition, a transboundary objective entails collaboration with Ghana’s neighbor to the West, Côte d’Ivoire, in a process that could be replicated around the continent.
Components / Outcomes
Partners
In addition to the Mami Wata implementing partners, GRID-Arendal and the Abidjan Convention (ABC) Secretariat, several collaborative Institutions are playing a key role in the project implementation. These include:
The report was validated during a two-day workshop in Grand-Bassam.
The sustainable management of marine and coastal resources at the center of the exchanges during this second workshop aimed at the validation of the SoME report.
The workshop is the first of a series of three workshops aimed at the validation of the SoME report by the stakeholders involved in the management of the marine and coastal environment in the country.